Uritonnoir, french noun. This term refers to a sanitation facility intended to urinate in standing position. An uritonnoir is a hybridisation of two everyday products, an urinal and a funnel (literally in french, "urinnoir" et "entonnoir"). This system is used either used in public spaces during festive events (slotted into round bales) or in private gardens (slotted into small straw bundles). L'Uritonnoir is an utensil filling a volume of straw (carbon) with urine (nitrogen) in order to compost it during a 6-12 month period and convert it into humus.

Two models:

DIY model. Polypropylene version. Cut from a polypropylene sheet, this model is delivered flat. Then it is folded and put together thanks to closing tongues. You can customize this model with silkscreen printing.

Are you an open-air festival organiser? Are you wishing to adopt environment-friendly solutions? Do you consign glasses but would like to do more?

L'Uritonnoir is a simple and efficient solution providing a sanitation facility to festival fans and converting urine into compost. Once it is transformed into humus, it will naturally enrich surrounding soil and plants. After the round bale is positioned, simply slot into your Uritonnoirs and set them together with a strap! Your mission is to raise festival-goers' awareness to dry urination, rinse water saving and urine upcycling. Setting Uritonnoirs up will relieve sitting toilets from men's number ones, therefore your facility will be kept optimally clean. You may customise your Uritonnoirs by silkscreen-printing the vertical zone with pedagogical messages (the interest of straw and urine equation) or with your event's graphic identity.

Once your festival is over, different solutions are available to manage with your round-bale soaked with urine:

» Municipal Garden Services transports it towards the closest composting facility and keeps it for horticultural use.
» The round bale stays and composts on-the-spot. Six months later the manure can be used by local farmers. The following year, it can be used as a giant planter to be enjoyed by new festival-goers !

Personal use for garden configuration

Do you use to go for a number 1 in the back of your garden? Do not waste this valuable golden fluid by sprinkling inappropriate surfaces! Convert your urine into humus instead by "uritonning" in a small straw bundle. About six to 10 months only are required before spreading this amazing composted manure around the base of your trees and plants.

Raise your friends' awareness to this simple and essential gesture that respect nature, saves water and upcycles urine!

A few days later and a few thousand uses later, won’t it and the ground surrounding it just be drenched in piss?

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Yep. Also facing each other while taking a slash, hmm. I suppose if you’re at a festival you’ll be too drunk to care.

blurg

I’m guessing by that comment you’ve never actually been to a festival?

Ross

How close is that ‘urinal’ to the crowd?! Also, couldn’t you just remove the middle-man and go directly onto the bale?…

andi

And the smell on a sunny day…

Neogeo

Not sure I want to be that exposed to everyone at a concert. Imagine a drunk falling into that wet bale of hay, not pretty.

fred

Too bad for people with hay fever, they’ll pee their pants.

antoine

I can easily imagine the hay coming apart after several uses, and then gently falling down before finally pissing all over the place. Nice concept though!

Greg

Privacy and decency? Seriously doing this out in the open? BTW – not all urine smells bad.

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Genius! And for the prudish ones among us, put a second one on top or some advertising!

blah

Chemically sanitised portaloos are bad enough at festivals. I’m gagging just at the thought of the stench involved in this. You could line these up a couple of fields away, but have it near the main stage and in a few hours you’ll have a river of mud and piss. Debuting at “hellfest” seems appropriate.

Rae Claire

Still, seems like a useful idea for appropriate venues if kept away from main gathering areas and if each one is used only so many times. Maybe a feature to add would be a use-counter.

Reach the max uses and move on to or set up another one. If there’s a big field, they could just be left, as suggested, and finally spread around months later. I doubt that privacy would be much of an issue for most public restrooms are hardly private. Really seems less disgusting than what we have now, and the avoidance of chemicals is a plus.